Asminor planet discoveries are confirmed, they are given a permanent number by theIAU'sMinor Planet Center (MPC), and the discoverers can then submit names for them, following the IAU'snaming conventions. The list below concerns those minor planets in the specified number-range that have received names, and explains the meanings of those names.
Based onPaul Herget'sThe Names of the Minor Planets,[6] Schmadel also researched the unclear origin of numerous asteroids, most of which had been named prior to World War II. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in thepublic domain: SBDB New namings may only beadded to this list below after official publication as the preannouncement of names is condemned.[7] The WGSBN publishes a comprehensive guideline for the naming rules of non-cometary small Solar System bodies.[8]
Hans-Ludwig Neumann [de] (1938–1991), a German physicist and amateur astronomer. From 1976 to 1991, he was the president of thePhysical society (German:Physikalischer Verein [de]) based in Frankfurt am Main.
TheKuban Cossack Choir, a folkloric Russian ensemble, was founded on 1811 and named on the occasion of its 200th anniversary on 12 October 2011 (M.P.C. 76677).
Jack Kuipers (1921–2016), an American aerospace engineer and mathematician. He taught mathematics at Calvin College for 20 years after a 17-year engineering career in the aerospace industry and is known for his book onquaternions:Quaternions and rotation Sequences: a Primer with Applications to Orbits, Aerospace, and Virtual Reality (Src).
Mark Larson (born 1962), a senior scientist at the Space Dynamics Laboratory at Utah State University, responsible for the camera aboard theWISE spacecraft
Fengchuan Liu (born 1965), an expert in cryogenic physics who served as the project manager for the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer and NEOWISE projects and who has worked on a number of other NASA low temperature physics experiments